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WhyGoSolo Bridges Your Online and Offline Worlds
Written by Sarah Perez / February 19, 2008 10:04 AM / 2 Comments
WhyGoSolo, a completely self-funded startup from Washington D.C., wants to help you transition your online relationships and friendships to the offline world. For some people, the interactions they have online Continue reading »


Blu-ray Wins Format War - Much Longer HD Download Battle Lies Ahead
Written by Steve O'Hear, last100 editor / February 19, 2008 7:26 AM / 4 Comments
Syndicated from last100, our digital lifestyle blog It's official: Toshiba, the leading partner in the HD DVD camp, has waved the white flag. The next generation DVD format war is Continue reading »


Scribd Launches New Platform and iPaper, a New Format for Web Docs
Written by Sarah Perez / February 19, 2008 6:01 AM / 10 Comments
Scribd, the online document sharing site, announced today the creation of a new document format built for the web, dubbed iPaper. This web-based viewer lets you view documents in a Continue reading »


Mosso: Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us
Written by Josh Catone / February 19, 2008 6:00 AM / 13 Comments
Outages aside, there's no doubt that the rise of web scale computing platforms, like Amazon's EC2 and S3 services, have lowered the barrier of entry for Internet startups. Going completely Continue reading »


Web 2.0 Meets Medicine: Focused on Communication
Written by Richard MacManus / February 19, 2008 2:34 AM / 6 Comments
Bertalan Meskó from the excellent ScienceRoll blog has uploaded a presentation he gave recently at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference. The presentation, embedded below, is a great overview of Continue reading »


Bungee Launches PaaS for Building Web Apps in the Cloud
Written by Sarah Perez / February 18, 2008 9:01 PM / 7 Comments
The Bungee Connect platform is the first end-to-end, cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for professional-class web applications. Today, Bungee Labs released a new version of the Bungee Connect web application development and Continue reading »


Weekend Apps: Building Web Apps Isn't Just About Coding
Written by Josh Catone / February 18, 2008 8:10 PM / 3 Comments
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the emerging phenomenon of weekend code-a-thons in which programmers and designers get together over a short period of time to try to Continue reading »


Comment of the Day: Hey You, Back Up My Cloud!
Written by Richard MacManus / February 18, 2008 7:59 PM / 2 Comments
We have two prize winners to announce, for yesterday and today. Our 7th and 8th daily Comments Competition winners come from two different posts. The first is one from Reaching Continue reading »


WikiLeaks, Censorship and the Watchdog Web
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 18, 2008 2:54 PM
A very interesting site for whistle blowers called WikiLeaks is facing government censorship as today a California judge reportedly ruled that the company in control of the site's domain name Continue reading »


Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds
Written by Alex Iskold / February 18, 2008 1:20 PM / 17 Comments
On Friday, a massive outage occured at Amazon Web Services that generated a wave of negativity and criticism in the blogosphere. Not long ago, Rackspace, one of the world's largest Continue reading »


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